Chris Huggins
OBStJ, AssDipHSc (Ambulance Officer), BHSc (Pre-Hospital Care), DipEd&Trang (Melb), DipFLM, MTrang&Dev (Melb).
Lecturer and NEPT Course Co-ordinator
Lecture for the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice.
Chris Lecturers in the BEH(P) and Unit co-ordinator for BEH2011 and BEH3012.
Co-ordinator HLT30207 Certificate III in Non-Emergency Patient/Client Transport and HLT50407 Diploma of Paramedic Science (Ambulance).
Chris developed distant education package for the Diploma of Paramedical Studies, and is the secretary for the RTO course advisory committee. Provide advice to DHS on educational matters for the Non-Emergency Sector. Designed, authored many learning text and workbooks for the program run by the RTO.
Chris is a paramedic with over twenty years experience and during that time has held the position of Team Manager, Safety and Support Manager and Clinical instructor. Chris was on the MAS Medical Standards Committee for three years.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Learning through simulation.
Critical decision making and the health care professional.
Barriers to continuing education in health care professionals.
The community involvement in first aid and pre and out of hospital care.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Oral presentations
Huggins C. Simulation beyond psychomotor skills to judgement. To be presented at. CS&H Industry Skills Council’s Convention. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; October 2009.
Huggins C. Simulations, Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement Lessons learn. 16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Victoria Canada; 2009.
Boyle M, Bibby C, Williams B, Huggins C, Morton A, Shugg D. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Emergency Responder Program – A Review of The First Seven Years. 7th International Spark of Life Conference. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 2009
Huggins C. Learning through simulation: Experiential Learning; “Powerful, Purposeful and Personal”(a work in progress) Australian College of Ambulance Professionals Conference. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; 2007.
Poster presentation
Boyle M, Bibby C, Williams B, Huggins C, Morton A, Shugg D. The First Seven Years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Emergency Responder Program. Auckland New Zealand: 2009.
Huggins C. Three Phases of Simulation and Influence of Bloom’s Domains Embedded in Effective Simulation. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2009.
Huggins C. Simulation Beyond Skills to Clinical Reasoning. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2009.
Huggins C. Evidence based practice and clinical judgement: The Challenge for Health Care Professionals. Australian College of Ambulance Professionals Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2008.
Non-Refereed presentation
Huggins C. Public access defibrillation: World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Victoria, Australia 2003
Publications
Huggins C, and Shugg D, Non-Emergency Patient Transport in Victoria: An overview. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (JEPHC), Vol. 6, Issue 4, 2008.
Peter Jurkovsky
Senior Lecturer and unit head
Joel Luttrell
Lecturer and Short courses Co-ordinator
Kevin Norton
Lecturer
Stephen Fairey
Lecturer and Driving Standards Co-ordinator
Clive Butler
Project Officer
Barbara Martin
Administration
Angela Bertoncello
Administration
Lisa Sarris
Sessional Lecturer
John Ballard
Sessional Lecturer
Noel Brebner
Sessional Lecturer
